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A lot of guys post advice on building a pitching staff that have defined roles with set inning requirements. I see all the time some like:

800 ip for starters
150 ip for Long A
100 ip for setup
50 ip for closer

and while I think you can win with that strategy, there is certainly more than one way to skin a cat.

I recently finished a progressive team with only 6 good pitchers. I had a little under 1200 "quality" innings and played in Fenway. I put them as starters 1-6 and clicked the "pitch in relief box". I also had three chumps set to mop up. Here are the results.

The 89 wins were especially impressive considering that two teams in this division each won 104 games (16 team league). Trust me, I got sick of seeing those same 6 names every game. Good job juggling the fatigue all season.

Speaking of other was to skin cats, this was my pitching staff in biglen's Devious Weasel League:

Pitching Staff

Role

Player

T

W-L-S

IP/
162

ERA

OAV

WHIP

K/
9

BB/
9

HR/
9

K-BB

Salary

SP

1989 Mark Langston

L

4-5-0

74

3.56

.221

1.08

7.36

2.33

0.37

60-19

$2,192,575

SP/RP

1985 Karl Best

R

2-1-4

33

1.95

.207

0.96

8.91

1.67

0.28

32-6

$1,173,790

SP/RP

1982 Bill Caudill

R

12-9-26

96

2.35

.192

1.05

10.44

3.29

0.85

111-35

$3,188,466

SP/RP

1987 Bill Wilkinson

L

3-4-10

77

3.66

.223

1.07

8.61

2.48

0.94

73-21

$2,267,600

SP/RP

1981 Larry Andersen

R

3-3-5

101

2.66

.228

1.11

5.32

2.39

0.53

40-18

$2,667,033

SP/RP

1988 Scott Bankhead

R

7-9-0

136

3.07

.224

1.13

6.80

2.53

0.53

102-38

$3,997,033

SP/RP

1981 Jim Beattie

R

3-2-1

100

2.97

.232

1.16

4.86

2.43

0.27

36-18

$2,747,064

SP/RP

1989 Erik Hanson

R

9-5-0

114

3.18

.243

1.19

5.96

2.54

0.56

75-32

$2,748,612

SP/RP

1988 Mike Moore

R

9-15-1

231

3.78

.232

1.13

7.16

2.48

0.94

182-63

$5,928,401

SP/RP

1982 Bob Stoddard

R

3-3-0

68

2.41

.205

0.98

3.21

2.41

0.94

24-18

$1,863,505

SP/RP

1985 Roy Thomas

R

7-0-1

94

3.36

.202

1.22

6.73

4.61

0.77

70-48

$2,595,707

SP/RP

1987 Jerry Reed

R

1-2-7

82

3.42

.255

1.26

5.62

2.65

0.77

51-24

$1,857,013

SP/RP

1988 Edwin Nunez

R

1-4-0

30

7.98

.366

2.01

5.83

4.30

1.23

19-14

$200,000

Pitching Totals

64-62-55

1,236

3.30

.229

1.15

6.78

2.74

0.71

875-354

$33,426,799

I went a little light on IP overall, but was playing in Petco with good defense, so I felt I could take some chances. I ran Moore, Beattie and Bankhead in a Starter 1, 2A, 2B rotation, and other than resting them a little down the stretch by letting Stoddard start 6 or 7 games, I let them just run all season. This team also finished with 89 wins and is now facing one of frazzman's teams in the WS.